[K12OSN] Re: cheap price on a couple SCSI drives

[ROC]

k12osn-request at redhat.com wrote:

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> [K12OSN] cheap price on a couple SCSI drives
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> Rob Owens <hick518 at yahoo.com>
> Date:
> Wed, 1 Jun 2005 03:09:15 -0700 (PDT)
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>Hopefully everybody will recognize that I'm a regular
>here and not a spammer...
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>I spotted these drives that seem to be a pretty good
>deal, so I thought I'd post them.  I don't know much
>about SCSI drives, so I apologize if I've wasted your
>time with a not-so-good deal.
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>They are Seagate Barracuda 181 GB drives.  
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>http://www.overstock.com/cgi-bin/d2.cgi?PAGE=ENDECA&SEC_IID=8770&N=0&keywords=Seagate+Barracuda+181GB+SCSI+Hard+Drive&x=0&y=0
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>-Rob
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I checked on these,  and the info on "them" on Seagate's site, and they 
are actually the same model:  180GB drives The only diff for $5 is that 
you get a 80-to-68 pin cable adapter, so it seems these have an SCA 
interface as used in Sun (and other I think) workstations/servers.  They 
appear to be high-end server-grade drives, so be sure your SCSI 
controller can work with them (not sure if that's an issue, but 
something I would verify before spending $140+ - dunno about Linux 
support, but would not think that would be an issue?  ;-).

FWIW
Rory O'Connor